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A Proper Ditmas Two-Bed With Space for a Second Bathroom

And a Brooklyn Heights one-bed for thrill seekers.
  1. This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings Stunning views in Washington Heights and dare I say the perfect apartment in Bed-Stuy.
  2. The Look Book Goes to the Double Dutch Holiday Classic Some of the world’s best jumpers gathered at the Apollo Theater for the 33rd annual National Double Dutch League competition.
  3. Did the Mayor’s Top Aide Throw It All Away for Her Son’s Chick-fil-A? Prosecutors say Ingrid Lewis-Martin helped speed up real-estate projects in exchange for cash — and gifts for her son.
  4. How Aby Rosen Lost the Chrysler Building RFR wanted to return the building to its original swagger. It was a risky bet from the start.
  5. The Best Fish Markets in New York According to restaurateurs, cookbook authors, and sushi chefs.
  6. Architecture Is an Act of Vengeance in The Brutalist The film uses the field as a metaphor within a metaphor about trauma and mediocrity. The result is murk.
  7. A First Look at Audrey Gelman’s Six Bells Hotel The ruffly 11-room hotel is set to open in the Hudson Valley next spring.
  8. They Missed Their Cruise Ship. That Was Only The Beginning. A group of nine passengers were stranded on a remote island in Africa. They spent seven days trying to catch back up with the boat.
  9. Gigi Hadid Has Terrace Rats She’s addressing the issue.
  10. A Boerum Hill One-Bedroom With a Cobalt-Blue Fireplace for $575,000 And a sunny little co-op in Jackson Heights that’s so cheap, you’ll faint.
  11. The Slow Death of Neon Rockefeller Center is proposing to rip out its glowing glass signage in favor of LEDs. It joins a heap of others.
  12. Why Does Home Depot Sell a White Paint Called Climate Change? A windy investigation into paint-naming processes.
  13. Ethereal Lamps, Fendi Furniture, and More at Design Miami Plus a woven Colombian craft collection in Miami colors.
  14. The Alexander Brothers Have Been Arrested and Charged With Sex Trafficking Oren and Alon were granted bail by a state judge, but are still being held in custody on federal charges.
  15. The Approval Matrix: Are These Your Drones? Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  16. An Appealingly Petite Log Cabin in Phoenicia And a “hand-restored” ski getaway with its own EV charger.
  17. Can Architects Build for Rebuilding? Good planning for the future means thinking about a structure’s long-term flexibility before it goes up.
  18. Who Came Up With Those Rental Income Requirements Anyway? Figuring it out is harder than you’d think.
  19. Ty Pennington Is Moving to Tribeca The HGTV star won’t have much to renovate in the 1852 brick warehouse turned luxury condo.
  20. The Domme-Sub Roommates in a Downtown Brooklyn One-Bedroom Their dynamic extends to everything except the rent, which they split equally.
  21. Did Howard Lutnick Just Buy Bret Baier’s D.C. Mansion? Trump’s pick for commerce secretary just dropped nearly $30 million on the Fox New host’s palatial home, sources say.
  22. Is This the End of the Hostage Tenant? Lowering the cost of moving means more renters can escape their terrible apartments.
  23. The Met’s Contemporary-Art Wing Will Be Elegant and Tame A first look at Frida Escobedo’s forthcoming addition.
  24. A Gilded One-Bedroom on West End Avenue for $839,000 And a Crown Heights condo that held on to all of its charm in a recent renovation.
  25. This Stretch of Atlantic Avenue Can’t Fit Another Tasteful Shop The block where Toast, East Fork, and Outline opened is getting crowded.
  26. Bob Dylan’s Former Turtle Bay Townhouse Is for Sale He bought the place under his manager’s name, after renting for years from the actor Ruth Gordon.
  27. Read Curbed on New York Magazine’s Excellent New App Along with easy access to all the other sites, from the Cut to Vulture.
  28. Bill Cosby Is Facing Foreclosure on East 61st The disgraced comedian owes $4.2 million on his Lenox Hill mansion. His other mansion, on East 71st, seems fine.
  29. Can Life in the Financial District Really Be That Good? Truth in advertising or a conspiracy to make lower Manhattan a “thing.”
  30. The Look Book Goes to a Literary Launch Party The Whitney Review of New Writing, Whitney Mallett’s culture periodical, held a packed party at Frog Club to celebrate its fourth issue.
  31. All of the Real-Estate Operators Trump Is Bringing to Washington Trump’s appointees include in-law Charles Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and other execs who have potential conflicts of interest in their new roles.
  32. Disney’s New Downtown Headquarters Is All New York There’s nothing goofy about it.
  33. Keeping It Simple on Lower Fifth Jack Ceglic and Manuel Fernandez-Casteleiro’s apartment is full of stories but not distractions.
  34. A Tree House in the West Village for $775,000 And a Park Slope dentist’s office that’s actually a pretty ideal three-bedroom.
  35. William P. Lauder Thinks It’s a Good Time to Sell a Park Avenue Co-op The cosmetics heir is listing a floor-through in a Rosario Candela building, where he owns another unit upstairs
  36. The Year the Cybertruck Took Manhattan All at once, Elon Musk’s goofy space tanks seemed to be everywhere.
  37. 39 Reasons to Love New York Right Now ‘SNL’ is 50 and 38 other reasons why.
  38. The Best New Books to Give Architecture and Design Enthusiasts From a Shigeru Ban monograph to a book of national-parks maps, a selection of the year’s best books for design lovers.
  39. It’s Christmas for D.C.’s Luxury Brokers “We were calling all our clients and saying, ‘Hey, do you want to sell your $9 million house?’”
  40. The Approval Matrix: Wicked Legal Adultery Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  41. A Brooklyn Heights Townhouse With a Country-Home Feel Architect Wids DeLaCour Jr. won an award for the way he opened up this former “wreck” of a 19th-century townhouse.
  42. Will the BQE Survive the Trump Administration? And other burning questions we asked Meera Joshi, New York City’s infrastructure-funding czar.
  43. A Spacious One-Bed on a Highish Floor in the Clinton Hill Co-ops for $735,000 And a Park Slope two-bed that’s snug but smartly laid out.
  44. The Lichtenstein Family Is Selling a Townhouse The 1845 house where the artist once lived has pumpkin pine flooring and a solarium kitchen.
  45. The Same Guy Who Bought Kanye’s Malibu Mansion Wants Diddy’s Bo Belmont offered half the listed price.
  46. Can Commercial Real Estate Keep Propping Up Artists? For years, Two Trees in Dumbo subsidized artists’ studios. Now the rent is going up.
  47. Maybe It’s the Beetlejuice Bedroom A two-bedroom at the Pierre has Serena Boardman and a 50 percent price cut going for it. Will anyone buy?
  48. My Doomed Hunt for a House in the Rockaways I was ready to buy a home in a neighborhood I loved. Was I delusional?
  49. City of Yes-ish The mayor’s housing plan advances in the council, with some big concessions to NIMBYs.
  50. The History of the Modern Office in One Building The old MetLife complex on Madison Square, once a hive of paper-pushing clerks, gains a tall addition that’s all light and air.
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